We are all disciples of Srila Guru Maharaj, Om Vishnupad Jagad-Guru Srila
Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev-Goswami Maharaj. Srila Guru Maharaj has given us
the seed of devotion and we should know how to protect it.

You know that if you plant a seed of some tree, you must then water it, give
it some fertiliser, some sun, and so on. Similarly, we must take care of our
devotional seed—every day we must come to the arati, join the
programme, must get some good association. Good association is necessary for
our devotional life. If we do not get good association, then there will be a
big problem in our devotional life, so every day we must read some devotional
books—Srila Sridhar Maharaj and Srila Guru Maharaj wrote so many books,
scriptures, we should read them and know what is written in them. Also, we
should sing some songs.

We must continue our practising life in this way every day. Even if you live
in your own house, you can turn your house into an ashram, a temple. What do
we do at the temple? We do arati, we have an altar, and you too can
have an altar with Srila Guru Maharaj's photograph, or the Deities, and every
day do arati, offer worship, and offer whatever food you take to the
Deities. We must continue our life in this way.

"By its intrinsic nature, the soul is an eternal servant of Krishna; the
souls comes from the marginal energy of Krishna and are simultaneously one
with and different from the Lord."

(Sri Chaitanya-charitamrita, Madhya-lila, 20.108)

I am not my name. Where did I get my name? When I was born, I got my name,
but you should think where you were before, where you are now, and where you
will go after that. We are not this body. We have come from Krishna and we
must go "back to God, back to home"—we must go to Krishna. To get
there, we must do something. What will we do? We must do something for
Krishna.

Before I was born, Krishna asked me, "I will give you eyes, what will you do
with them? Will you see My Deity form with your eyes?" We promised, "Yes, I
will do that." Krishna asked, "I am giving you hands, will you do My service
with these hands?" We promised, "Yes, I will." Krishna asked, "I am giving
you legs, will you do parikrama of My Holy Dham with these legs?" We
answered, "Yes, I will." We had promised all this, but when we were born we
forgot it. Why do we forget it? Because we are covered by illusion.

"My alluring, 'trimodal,' illusory potency is practically insurmountable.
However, those who take shelter in Me can overcome this powerful
obstacle."

(Srimad Bhagavad-gita, 7.14)

Krishna Himself says in Srimad Bhagavad-gita, "I created illusion, and
unless you take shelter in Me this illusion will not be removed."

We do not know Krishna, we do not know Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, but we know our
Gurudev—we have got a good Divine Master, and we must follow him. What
is the definition of a disciple? To be a disciple means to obey the Master's
rules, obey his instruction. So, we must always follow our Gurudev, his
instruction, and always see his destination. What is called bhajan?
Bhajan means pleasing all Vaishnavs and Gurudev, it means I must
follow whatever instruction Gurudev gives.

We must all fully surrender to our Gurudev, to Krishna, but it is actually
very hard to do that. We say it with our mouth, "Oh, I am fully surrendered
to Gurudev," but it is actually not so—we must fully surrender to our
Gurudev mentally also.

You know there is one story in Sri Mahabharat. One day, Draupadi asked
Sri Krishna, "Why did You not protect me when Duhsasan and others dragged me
by my hair, when they were beating me?" Krishna answered with a question,
"Did you remember Me at that time? You did not. You have five husbands, and
when they caught you, you were thinking about Bhim, Arjuna, and others. You
thought that nobody was there to protect you now, but when your husbands
would come, they would punish them."

Duhsasan threw Draupadi on the floor in front of everybody—Bhisma,
Drona, Yudhisthir, and others were sitting there. Draupadi began to cry,
"Bhim, why are you not doing anything? You are my husband, and in front of
you they are abusing me so much, but you are not even looking at me!" Bhim
saw what was going on, but he had no power because the Pandavs had been
defeated in a game of pasa: they were helpless and could not do
anything. Draupadi was crying, but all they could do is sit and look.

Finally, Duhsasan became very angry and said, "If you want to say something,
you must say it to me. They are all my servants now!" When Bhimsen heard
this, he became very angry and said, "If I get any power in future, I will
kill him!" Duhsasan became even angrier and ordered to his soldiers, "Take
off her clothes!"

When they started pulling her clothes off, Draupadi thought, "I must hold my
clothes! I can protect myself..." Then, she began to call to Krishna with one
hand, and she was still trying to pull her clothes back with the other hand.
She still thought she could protect herself. When her clothes were almost all
taken off, at that time she thought, "I have no hope! I am helpless!" Then
with both hands she cried, "O Krishna! Please protect me!"

From this example you see that we cannot do anything—Krishna does
everything. If we cannot believe it, we can see that He always says in
Srimad Bhagavad-gita,